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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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Address Affirmation Conflict Development Early Finding Ourselves

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